Reading Emily Dickinson ~


An afternoon of Round Table discussion and readings with Neil Paul.

Neil Paul with Fan Mrs. Huitema

Many of you know Neil from his years of teaching High School in the area.  Others know Neil from his inspirational talks, including Canadian, Caledonia, ON.  Please join us once again in The Neat Little Bookshop.

Thursday, June 21, 1:00 p.m.
"Everyone Welcome"

Photo:  files, lbwalker (Remind us to get a new picture of Neil and Mrs. Huitema.)

To be reduced to a raft after hoping to sail a Viking Ship would be a let-down for The Neat Little Bookshop if it were not Huck Finn's raft!  Hemingway once said that Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the best book ever written.

Author Mark Twain wrote:

"Ours is a useful trade, a worthy calling: with all its lightness and frivolity it has serious purpose, one aim, one specialty, and it is constant to it ~ the deriding of shams, the exposure of pretentious falsities, the laughing of stupid superstitions out of existence; and that whoso is by instinct engaged in this sort of warfare is the natural enemy of royalties, nobilities, privileges and all kindred swindles, and the natural friend of human rights and human liberties."

Day of 1000 Canoes dawns on Saturday, June 23.  Visit our raft in York Park on the Grand. http://www.1000canoes.com/

Solitude

"To sit on rocks; to muse o'er flood and fell;
To slowly trace the forest's shady scene,
Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,

And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been!

To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
With the wild flock, that never need a fold,
Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;

This is not solitude: 'tis but to hold

Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled."

~ Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) British poet



Photo:  Rock Glen Falls, Ontario.  lbwalker

The Heritage Grand River ~

The New Dock Caledonia Fairgrounds



Preparation for Day of 1000 Canoes
http://www.1000canoes.com/



Viking Age Past ~
There are no Vikings.  The Kingdom of Vikings does not exist in the Village of York, contrary to what we had hoped.  Chieftains and noblemen are not native to Haldimand.  The great Viking ships were built for oceanic voyages, used for warfare during times of conflict, and other times for trade and commerce ~ sometimes for exploration.

The Walker Viking Ship once bravely sailed across the finish line in the fiercest of battles in Parkhill, Ontario.  The hull capable of carrying a crew of six, weighs close to one ton ~ dry.  Displaying noble flags, colourful mast and a dragon head of mammoth size, today the ship would require weeks of extensive refurbishing.  Viking warriors capable of lifting 400 lbs are in dwindling numbers.

Lacking the skills and methods developed over generations, we have reluctantly accepted that some tales exist only in story books and imaginations.  We bequeath the Kingdom of Vikings to ages past.

~ Signed, The Neat L'l Bookshop

Reminder:  Neil Paul will be in the bookshop on Thursday, June 21 at 1:00 p.m. 

Topic:  Emily Dickinson.  Everyone Welcome.

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